To make your Web page quick to download, store in JPEG format (.jpg) only those images that contain lots of colours and shading. Black-and-white or greyscale pictures, and pictures with large areas of a few colours, should be stored as GIF files. GIF compresses images by storing in shorthand format large areas of a single colour. So if your image has just a few areas of basic colour, it will be much smaller in GIF than in JPEG format. – Judy Heim
Post Web graphics in the right format
Category: Internet
Issue: May 1998
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